Middle-Aged Children's Coping Strategies With Tensions in the Aging Parent-Child Tie.

ABSTRACT: Middle-aged children may cope in different ways with interpersonal tensions with their aging parents. This study examined coping strategies as a function of parent's age and disability and children's emotions (i.e., guilty feelings and worry). Middle-aged children (N = 378) reported coping strategies when encountering interpersonal tensions with each of parents (N = 482): engagement, acceptance, avoidance, and confrontation. Middle-aged children also indicated how guilty and worried they felt about each parent. Multilevel models indicated that middle-aged children were most likely to use engagement and acceptance strategies, followed by avoidance, and least likely to use confrontation. Results also revealed that middle-aged offspring were more likely to use engagement toward

SUBMITTER: Wang H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8607365 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature